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A 5 page paper looking at Jake Barnes and Brett Ashley in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, as compared to Jay Gatsby and Daisy Fay Buchanan in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The paper specifically analyzes their characterizations in comparison with one another, and in terms of how they each reflect their author's respective views of life. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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be summed up by Hemingways obsession with reality, and Fitzgeralds equally obsessive flight from it. This can be seen in the characterizations of Jake and Brett in Hemingways The Sun
Also Rises, as compared to Jay and Daisy in Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby. It has long been recognized that there is a stock male "type" in Hemingways novels. Clearly
Hemingway invented this figure as much for his own life -- as an ideal to live up to, and to measure other men by -- as for his fiction. The
Hemingway hero was a very macho man who enjoyed women, drinking and physical action. Much of the Code Heros physicality revolved in some sense around war, bloodletting, and fighting. For
example, in A Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes is a hard-drinking veteran of the first World War, and a critical section of the novel involves going to Spain to see
the bullfights and the running of the bulls at Pamplona. This view of the "ideal man" as a man of action struck a resonant chord with members of Hemingways own
generation in the 1920s, who wished to see themselves in this light as well. Unfortunately, the macho virility of Hemingways Jake is undercut by the possession of a war wound
gained on the Italian front. Although Hemingway delicately avoids telling us precisely where the wound is, we know it is around his groin area and has rendered him completely impotent.
He can feel intense desire, but cannot have sexual intercourse. He can act macho, talk macho, and engage in every kind of macho role-playing activity except for the one by
which his masculinity is most intimately measured. This is a problem, because his particular circle of friends has little interest in anything except drinking, adventure, and sex. In the years
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